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Alcohol in the USSR: A Statistical Study
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Alcohol in the USSR: A Statistical Study

by Vladimir G. Treml,. 104 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Vladimir G. Treml,

Publisher:

   Duke University Press

Place of Publication:

  Durham, NC  

Publication Year:

  1982
Subjects:   Alcoholism--Soviet Union--Statistics, Liquor Industry--Soviet Union--Statistics
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1.
Alcohol in the USSR: A Statistical Study
Book by Vladimir G. Treml; Duke University Press, 1982
Subjects: Alcoholism--Soviet Union--Statistics, Liquor Industry--Soviet Union--Statistics
...Production and Supply of Alcoholic Beverages in the Soviet Union 3 2. Alcohol Content...13 2.3. Classification of Soviet wines by alcohol content 14...average wages 77 6.5. Basic statistics, urban and kolkhoznik families 78...1970 84 Foreword The work of Professor Treml on alcoholism in the USSR is pioneering in more than one way. When...
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
Book by Michael T. Florinsky; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Encyclopedias
...Center, Harvard University; Author Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia MICHAEL T. FLORINSKY, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia...universitaires, Paris; Author Atomic Energy in the Soviet Union SAUL KRAVETZ, A.M., Ph.D. Harvard , Assistant...Industry, Paul I. Medow 12 Alcoholism, Mark G. Field 14 Animal...Victor Sukiennicki 539 Statistics, Alfred Zauberman 544...
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Quality of Life in the Soviet Union
Book by Horst Herlemann; Westview Press, 1987
Subjects: Quality Of Life--Soviet Union--Congresses, Soviet Union--Social Conditions--1970-1991--Congresses
...that the relatively low standard of living in the Soviet Union can be traced to the fact that the Soviet government spends a considerably smaller share of its gross...among the best-paid employees in Soviet society, available statistics indicate that almost a third of them do not rise above...for by the Soviet state. In analyzing alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the Soviet Union, Vladimir G. Treml demonstrates...
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The Soviet Union in the 1980s
Book by Erik P. Hoffmann; Academy of Political Science, 1984
Subjects: Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1975-1985, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1975-1985, Soviet Union--Military Policy, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1945-1991, Soviet Union--Social Conditions--1970-1991
...street -- have swelled in the Soviet Union, testimony to the inability of official...accommodate individual ingenuity. As one Soviet discussion put it: "The person is...possible to use them." 20 In Soviet industry and agriculture, there is more...dominate the political debate. The Soviet Union is no different: elite and mass...by how it delivers the goods in industry and agriculture. Moreover, the...successive regimes have given heavy industry priority status because it is the...of economic administration, the Soviet leadership has remained firmly...leadership has been mixed. The Soviet Union has built an exceedingly powerful...
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The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future - Vol. 1
Book by Alexander Shromas, Morton A. Kaplan; Paragon Press, 1988
Subjects: Soviet Union--Economic Policy--1986-1991--Congresses, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1945-1991--Congresses, Soviet Union--Social Conditions--1945-1991--Congresses
...policy of the ruling party of the Soviet Union and the means of carrying it out...anti-egalitarian wage system in industry and a system of arbitrary privileges...economy as presented by the Soviet Union, and a revolutionary leader of uncontested...avoid the enormous damage done to Soviet agriculture and the massive terror...the limited capital available for industry created urgent economic problems...become particularly strong in the Soviet Union for more than a decade, with strikingly...links both with the building of industry and the control of peasants, its...
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1.
Soviet Political Developments and Prospects
Journal article by Archie Brown; World Policy Journal, Vol. 4, 1987
Subjects: World Politics
...less than popular: the Soviet Union , and especially the...to four-hour waits at liquor stores. Most Soviet...More Power to the Soviets? Reform and Local Government in the Soviet Union in British Journal...public knowledge of the Soviet Union remains disturbingly...
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Soviet Political Developments and Prospects
Journal article by Archie Brown; World Policy Journal, Vol. 4, 1986
Subjects: World Politics
...less than popular: the Soviet Union , and especially the...to four-hour waits at liquor stores. Most Soviet...More Power to the Soviets? Reform and Local Government in the Soviet Union in British Journal...public knowledge of the Soviet Union remains disturbingly...
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Retail in Poland: An Assessment of Changing Market and Foreign Investment Conditions
Journal article by Wieslaw Z. Michalak; Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 24, 2001
Subjects: Poland--Economic aspects, Retail industry--Analysis, Retail industry--Economic aspects, Retail industry--Forecasts and trends, Retail industry--Statistics, Retail trade--Analysis, Retail trade--Economic aspects, Retail trade--Forecasts and trends, Retail trade--Statistics
...investment is such that statistics gathering institutions...the highest priority in a Soviet-style society were heavy...the armies of the Soviet Union. These are also the reasons...only a fraction of the industry is involved -- a few dozen...onwards. According to some statistics, the turnover of Polish...membership in the European Union is a longer term proposition...143 3,630 Liquor stores...Studies. 2001. Handbook of Statistics: Countries in Transition...
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Viliui Sakha Post-Soviet Adaptation: A Subarctic Test of Netting's Smallholder-Householder Theory
Journal article by Susan A. Crate; Human Ecology, Vol. 31, 2003
...took a job in 1998 with the regional statistics bureau. Recently her parents bought her...cows-and-kin dependence of Viliui Sakha post-Soviet adaptation. The extent to which resources...microenvironments. Since the end of the Soviet period the focus of Viliui Sakha survival...given to certain individuals when the Soviet regime fell. This makes a difference...
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Constitutional Blemishes: American Alcohol Prohibition and Repeal as Policy Punctuation
Journal article by Mark Lawrence Schrad; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Liquor laws--Analysis, Liquor laws--History, Prohibition--Analysis, Prohibition--History, Social policy--Analysis, United States history--Social aspects
...in force: Russia/Soviet Union (1914-25), Belgium...Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, ed. M. Moore and...Aktiebolag) with Statistics of the Malt, Liquor...to Prohibition." Union Signal (March 15...Christian Temperance Union in International...
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1.
The Specificity of Soviet Capitalism
Magazine article by Charles Bettelheim; Monthly Review, Vol. 37, September 1985
Subjects: Alcoholism, Capitalism--Analysis, Imperialism, Marxist economics--Analysis, Social conflict, Socialism--Analysis, Soviet Union--Economic policy, Sweezy, Paul--Evaluation
...masses (even when a consumer demand could actually be met) and to systemic dysfunctions, the agricultural and light industry sectors of the economy perform especially inefficiently. To parry the popular discontent and dissatisfaction nourished by this state of affairs, Soviet ideologues point to the foreign military threat, the USSRs "radiant future, and its "mission to defend socialism...was disarmed. In 1932 the USSR produced 3,300 tanks annually; when the Nazis launched their invasion, the Soviet Union commanded 20,000 tanks, Germany and its allies, only 4,500. 7 Soviet tanks failed to rebuff the first wave of the...lost its dynamism and entered into a structural crisis. This crucial development is confirmed by official Soviet statistics which report the following annual growth rates in Gross Social Product (which is not the same as GNP since it includes...
2.
The Collapse of the Soviet Welfare State
Magazine article by Mikhail S. Bernstam; National Review, Vol. 39, November 6, 1987
Subjects: Public assistance, Social problems, Soviet Union--Social aspects, Welfare, Welfare state
The Collapse of the Soviet Welfare State. by Mikhail S. Bernstam THE RECENT CHANGES in the Soviet Union, for all their significance, are poorly understood in the...Soviet publications have begun churning out a cascade of statistics and stories of mass destitution and despair. By its own...of drinking parents and promiscuous single mothers. But alcoholism itself is often a symptom of poverty and lack of opportunities...
3.
Perestroika and the Future of Socialism
Magazine article; Monthly Review, Vol. 41, April 1990
Subjects: Capitalism--Analysis, Gorbachev, Mikhail--Evaluation, Perestroika--Analysis, Social change, Socialism--Forecasts and trends, Soviet Union--Economic aspects
...month in this space we dealth with the troubles in the Soviet Union that preceded and led up to glasnost and perestroika...the side of their utilization. Comparative international statistics strongly suggest that there is a great deal of waste and...and truth-speaking. Exposes of current ills (corruption, alcoholism, prostitution, etc.) appeared in the media, along with...
4.
The Poverty of Communism
Magazine article by Ed Rubenstein; National Review, Vol. 41, February 24, 1989
Subjects: Social problems, Soviet Union--Economic aspects
...claim to have eliminated poverty is also belied by official statistics released since Gorbachev took power. The infant-mortality...reported at thirty per thousand live births in 1985, puts the ,Soviet Union in the same league as Panama and Tonga; after adjusting...places as Chile, Ghana, Panama, and Uruguay. Excessive alcoholism is implicated in both trends. Per-capita consumption of...
5.
Gorbachev's Dilemma
Magazine article by Eugene H. Methvin; National Review, Vol. 39, December 4, 1987
Subjects: Glasnost--Analysis, Gorbachev, Mikhail--Social policy, Soviet Union--Politics and government
...report of rioting in Central Asia does not make a free Soviet press. But among Kremlin watchers it is certainly a noteworthy...attempt to find a way out of the box in which the Soviet Union finds itself. Rhett Ludwikowski, a Polish law professor...and a third of all marriages dissolve in divorce. Vital statistics became so embarrassing that the Soviets simply quit publishing...Soviet leadership, he wrote. He also reviewed the rise in alcoholism and decay of Soviet economic performance, concluding...
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Afflicted Russia Deals with Mortal Maladies: Alcoholism and Heart Disease Leading Ailments
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 13, 1999
...Russia deals with mortal maladies: Alcoholism and heart disease leading ailments...Although the departure of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the world...its nature from the countrys death statistics. Apart perhaps from infant deaths...note is what is not apparent in the statistics. Many medical specialists in Russia...Russian public health problem." The Soviet systems appalling destruction of...
2.
Helping Face Invisible Brutality Crisis Center Head Starts Shelter for Domestic Violence in Russia
Newspaper article by Christine Byers; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 11, 2005
...directly speak of while in the former Soviet Union. "The whole country is in denial...The women heard of some alarming statistics as well. Russias Health Ministry says...people Vapnar met also believe the high alcoholism rate contributes to violent home life...violent," Vapnar said. Though the statistics, conditions and conversations the...
3.
Why Does Russia Love Stalin Now? EXCLUSIVE He Killed a Million Political Enemies, Sent 18 Million to the Gulags and His Policies Starved 10 Million Peasants
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 4, 2006
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph
...at his iron-fisted rule with nostalgia. The then Soviet Union was a superpower, and Uncle Joe was their great leader...a million deaths is a statistic." There were many such statistics. Edward Acton, professor of modern European history at...instant death. Even family were not safe from his paranoia. Soviet prisoners-of-war were regarded as traitors, and when his...society. Welfare and healthcare systems have collapsed and alcoholism is endemic among the poor. Two thirds of long-suffering...
4.
Russia's Binge Drinking
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, December 14, 2001
Subjects: Russia
...of the population are drug addicts, according to Russian statistics. In fact, Russia has become the worlds new drug trafficking...Colombian cocaine are shipped annually to ports of the former Soviet Union. The article quotes a former Russian ambassador, Ednan...samogon, homemade vodka. * Enforced compulsory treatment of alcoholism. The anti-alcohol campaign, successful as it was, had...


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